Document from the year 2012 in the subject Book Science, course: Library Science, Information- / Documentation Science, language: English, abstract: This gives a comprehensive set of information on Webometric indicators for achieving higher ranks in university ranking systems. There is no doubt, whether we like or not rankings have gained much importance in the society and particularly in the higher education sector. Universities are being pressurized to strictly adhere to quality service and outputs and thus it emerges a need to go up in the ranking systems. Consequently, a number of ranking systems evolved to compare and contrast the world university performances. With the rapid changes in the area of university Web sites; there have been several studies carried out relevant to Webometric rankings of universities in all most all countries.